How to teach English? Understanding your students needs:

This is the question which we ask ourselves every day. As a Second Language teacher it is our duty to know what are the best way of teaching English to the students .As we know there are various  theories and researches done on Second olanguage acquisition. How the individual acquire an additional  language is being debated from a long time .What are the barriers which student face while learning an additional tongue were the main focus of the researchers.

Teachers should know what are the problems  faced by students to acquire an additional tongue .While teaching students English as a first or second language we should keep in our mind different language acquisition theories and most importantly Krashen theory .

Krashen's  Affective filter hypothesis is a key to teaching .In simple words he said in his hypothesis that students are anxious , non motivated etc they will not learn language . In order to teach English it is necessary to provide a relax environment to the students where they can feel themselves more motivated. Students can learn language only when the teacher is able to lower their barriers.

Another important point is the input given to the students .teachers should make sure the input they give to the student is i+1 or only one step beyond their current level of competence. Teachers also focus too much on the accuracy of the language and they completely ignore to  develop fluency in their students .Students should be allowed to make mistakes and communicative function of language should be given more importance than the usage of correct grammatical forms .